A teenager who ran into an hotel housing asylum seekers after large crowds smashed windows and doors during large-scale disorder has been told he will be detained for more than two years.
Ashley Lowe, 19, was among a group who attacked police outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, on 4 August.
He went to the trouble “because there was nothing else to do” and it led to him kicking fence panels and entering the building, Sheffield Crown Court was told.
Lowe, of North Street, Darfield, admitted violent disorder and was told he would serve two years and two months at a youth offenders’ institution.
